One of Oshima's most powerful and controversial films. Telling the brutal story of real-life rapist and serial murderer Eisuke (Kei Sato) and his relationship with his protective schoolteacher wife Matsuko (Akiko Koyama) and his only surviving victim Shino (Saeda Kawagushi) Oshima takes the format of the 'real-life crime' drama and uses it as a canvas to lay bare the lost idealism and decay in postwar Japan. Although the action takes place in a seemingly idyllic rural setting Oshima's portrait of humanity is as dark violent and uncompromising as the urban wastes... and hellish ghettos of Naked Youth and The Sun's Burial. Never presenting Eisuke as anything less than a monster Oshima goes further to suggest how such deviancy and (specifically male) violence reflects an amoral and corrupt modern society. Part thriller part reaction against the austere Japanese cinematic tradition with avant-garde experimentation and grim social commentary Violence At High Noon is fresh and as fearsome today as when it was first released. [show more]
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Director Nagisa Oshima's controversial examination of society's moral decay in postwar Japan. Based on the real-life story of brutal rapist Eisuke (Kei Sato), Oshima examines the relationship between the rapist, his protective wife Matsuko (Akiko Koyama), and the last living victim, Shino (Saeda Kawagushi). Although they live in a rural setting, the grim living conditions that the three main characters have to endure are portrayed as being equally abhorrent to the activities of the rapist himself, whose actions reflect the decay, amorality, and corruption into which modern society has sunk.
Controversial Japanese film centring on a real-life rapist and serial killer and his relationship with the schoolteacher wife who protects him.
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